Filed To Story: Secret with Betas Daughter: Skylar Story Series
Then a hand reaches from my left and pulls my face. “Beautiful.”
Cam plants a gentle kiss on my lips. Then a hand pulls my chin from my right. “Gorgeous.”
Dakota also gives me a kiss.
I move to get off of Oliver and he groans but lets me up. When they all stand up, side by side I notice Oliver is the same height and they have all filled out just a little bit. They were always huge compared to me, but now their size and build is almost identical, when Oliver was an inch or so shorter than the twins, but wider just this morning. I also don’t fail to notice that now they are all wearing shorts. No idea where clothes came from, but after all the mate talk I can’t say that I’m mad about it. It’s one less distraction anyway.
“How does it feel to be Alphas now?” Cameron asks, looking between Oliver and I.
I look down at myself. I don’t think I look any different, but I can feel the extra surge of power and the connection to the pack is different, but the same. All the energies are stronger. I can actually tell the difference in each pack member’s energy pull in my head.
“Damn, is this what’s running through your heads all the time?” Oliver is rubbing his temples.
“Oh, Sh*t! Does that mean we have your magic and can shoot fireballs too?!?” Dakota laughs, looking at his hands. “Sam is so screwed!” A manic gleam flashes in his eyes. “I feel like I am buzzing, like a livewire.”
“Stop, focus. You can think about shooting Sam in the ass with fire when this is over.”
I shake my head and look at our surroundings for the first time. The tornado is still swirling, it’s just the four of us inside now. “Four Alphas. Have you ever heard of four Alphas before?”
I look at each of them. They all now have the same build, the same black hair. Dakota’s is longer on top, Cam’s is still military short and Oliver’s is somewhere in between, but the same exact brilliant color of raven black. Their eyes are still their own colors, at least to me, but I can see a swirl in all of their eyes, like blue, green, gold and silver paint floating on water, but never mixing. It’s kind of trippy to look at for too long. I wonder if the rest of our friends will be able to tell the three of them apart now or if they have changed enough to look like triplets. Oliver’s tattoos set him apart from the twins, but we may have to change that too. The tattoos are a definite turn on. Where did that thought come from? I shake my head finding I am easily distracted just by looking at them.
“I don’t know if I ever have, but there is a first time for everything and you seem to be the one the Moon Goddess chose for firsts.”
Cameron says with a smile. “I’ve also never heard of mates like this, two brothers and a bonus mate.”
“I’m actually still trying to figure out why I’m here, trust me. I thought I was just going to be her Gamma. I knew she was going to lead our pack, but this is way more than I expected.”
“You get her, you always have. You understand the magic side of her…”
“Still standing here, you do know that right?” I laugh at their musings. “Who knows why the Moon Goddess decided this,” I gesture to the four of us, “was necessary, but we should expect more bullsh*t even after we deal with Mike. I can ask Luna Anne if she has heard anything from the Moon Goddess about all of these firsts. Maybe she can help.”
“I know another first I would like to get to sooner rather than later.”
Dakota wiggles his eyebrows at me and mine shoot into my hairline.
“Knock it off. We have plenty of time later for that. We aren’t going to attack her now. We need to deal with Mike and his goons attacking us.”
Oliver chides him, but I don’t miss the wave of want rolling off of all of them.
“F*ck I forgot about that guy.”
He rolls his neck like a petulant child. “So how do we get out of the wind storm?”
“I don’t know. I thought it would let us out after we all marked Skylar. I mean Elena said the rest of the mating stuff could come later. What do you think, Sky?” Cam looks at me like I would have any idea what the hell is going on.
“I don’t know. You all have marked me, I have returned the favor, I figured that would have stopped this storm. I wonder if this isn’t a part of our magic, but Adrielle’s. Do you think she is a part of this with Mike? I know she was the one who made the prophecy. Could we be in a trap?” I turn to look at the wall of dust and debris swirling around us. It’s a tube going straight up to a darkening sky. “How long have we been in here?” I muse out loud.
“No idea, but obviously long enough. Let’s see if you can manipulate the wind at all. Maybe it’s a natural protection you didn’t know you put up around us.”
Yep Oliver gets me, or at least the magic part of me.
I raise my hand but nothing happens, I can’t even feel a pull to the wind element. I look at Oliver a little panicked. Wind was the element that was easiest for me. What is happening? I can feel the fear or uncertainty rise up in my chest and it brings on the warmth that lets me know my fire is right under the surface. Well that’s good I guess. I still have my raging element.
He steps towards me, placing his hand on my shoulders. “It’s okay we’ll figure this out. Maybe this is why we are still here. You’re marked now, so your magic has changed.”
His words are meant to be pacifying, to help me calm down so I can focus. But the idea that my magic has changed sounds terrible. Especially when I just started to get a hang of the things I have been practicing. The magic I have been doing over the last few weeks has been all vicarious through Elena and Gentry. Or more accurately their magic has been vicarious through me. I have just been the filter since I have a magic filter or metabolism and can’t fight off most spells and incantations.
But what am I supposed to do now? How do I get us out of this? Our whole group could be suffering because I can’t get us out of a torrential tornado.
“Okay, Oliver, I take back anything hateful I may have said out of jealousy for you being able to feel her emotions. Is it like this all the time?”
“She’s actually just processing ‘what if’ questions right now. Wait until she’s really worried or angry. Although, I wonder if I can feel the same from you two now or if your emotions filter through her to me. Since she is our link.”
Cam and Oliver continue to muse about the nuances of our connection while I stand here in the middle trying to find a way to get us out of here. My flame is licking at my insides at their lack of urgency at the situation.
“Hey, sweetness. Breathe, okay. I think you might be approaching this from the wrong angle.”
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